After Huntsville, we stoped In Sopchoppy, Florida, where we met Robert Seidler.He was quick thinking and within a day had organised two shows, one in Sopchoppy and one in Clarabelle. Both went down well and were very well attended. Apart from performing we explored the natural areas which were outstanding and diverse. All in all a perfect week.

We are now back in Charleston and our feeling are mixed between stress (dealing with shipping) and enjoyment (outing with friends).

We now have a confirmed booking on a ship living Baltimore on the 3rd of June and arriving in Southampton, England, on the 20th.

Between Fletch, Scott and myself, we have started the tedious process of writting a book on this world tour.

We will be going back on the road this Wednesday and are now trying to spend as much time as possible with friends.

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Could not blog much as we had to pass the border again, so here it is, back in time.

Whiles we were at Dave and Lindsay’s house, enjoying flying on the trapeze everyday, we realised that our 3 month visa was not extendable.

We then had to say good by to our friends and head to Mexico. Although we were sad to leave so enexpectedly, we were happy to be back in Mexico, wich we considered a civilised country in comparison to the USA.

It is illegal to go out to a neighborhood country and enter the States again, but after crossing the big sierra of Mexico from Hermosillo to Chihuahua (doing shows along the way), we heard of a big festival taking place in Austin, Texas. So we took our chances and crossed back into the States at the Ojinaba border.

With our new 3 month visa, we stoped to visit friends in Terlingua, Big Bend park,TX. The place is in the middle of the desert and looks void of people, so we were surprised to stumble in the Starlight theatre in the Ghosttown, wich was filled with people but also had a big and beautifull stage. We talked to Chad and Summer, the owners, and it was decided that we would perform our show Friday (the very next day), Saturday and Sunday. Not only did they looked after us very well, but also promised that the two next weeks ( Spring’s break) would be full of tourists (different crowd all the time) so we stayed for another 15 days (forgot all about the Austin festival). We were fed amaizing food, given wine, beer and even Champagne every nights. The locals of Terlingua took us for hikes in the desert. Mike from Desert Sport and the Bloomfield bicycle crew organised a canoe trip in the canyon for us. We had a wonderfull time and started saving for the shipment of the bus back to Europe. The day we left, lots of Telingua people were waiting for us along the road, out of town, and as we drove past , they all took their pants off and showed us their bottom, how can we ever forget them now?

On the Saturday after our departure, we performed in Easther’s Follies in Austin and on the Sunday in the Central market.

Now we are back at our friend’s house, Woods, in Huntsville where we will do our show this Saturday in his back garden.

Well we are back in Mexico and are really enjoying it. Soon we should head to Texas to see some friends and ship the bus back to Europe. Will write and explain more later in the mean time, if you feel like flying www.trapezehigh.com you will not regret it.

I am afraid that in order to stay diplomatic I will not say much about our travel in California. When we left Vancouver, we had a very nice weekend with some friends who rented a house in Whidbey in Washington State.

In Oregon, Portland, we were very lucky to meet Greg and Teresa, who organized a show for us, and with whom we stayed a week.

Had a nice Christmas in a campground (after being refused entrance in another campground for living in a converted camper and not a proper one, that’s California for you).

In Sausalito met a really nice couple and spent New-year eve with them, we also managed to pull off a few busking shows.

Finally when we arrived in LA, Theo’s dream came true and we had a wonderful day in Disneyland.

We are now with TapezeHight School north of San Diego and it’s the best thing that happened to us in a while. We are back training and being taught Flying Trapeze. It feels like a safe heaven far from Californian rules and regulation, it is a wonder how a state run by a supposedly artist (actor, however a bad one) can be so hard for artists.

By the way, and really sadly, we are now criminals (even thought I really don’t feel like one) as sleeping in your vehicle in the street of California is considered an act worth of being put in prison.

What a positive day, today was, even so it wasn’t a circus one but a mechanical resolve. We went to see the peoples of Grey Line in Victoria. Their attitude was reinvigorating.

In one afternoon we fixed so many little problems with the bus that had been bothering us for ages and now we feel that we are ready for another long drive, or at least the bus is. The way I picture it, it is like an old lady (the bus) who is coughing and have a hip problem and maybe an ache in the ankle and she is crying for attention and today the really goods doctors of Grey Line finally, fixed her up.

Anyway, backing up a bit, after Al.

It is only when we reach BC that we started to perform again. First in Kamloop, then in Penticton , where we met with friends from Mexico, Michel and Loraine Castro. We then went to Powell River to meet up with the Morgansten family, with who we had traveled together for a bit in Mexico. We stayed with them over two weeks. Stephan helped us fix the wood burner pipe, so we are now warm and cozy. They also helped us organize a few show in the area. We ate lots of yummy oysters with them. We felt sad and disoriented when we left for Victoria, which is where we are now.

Monday we will go to Vancouver and back to the States, on the West coast this time

In the last two weeks, we just drove, drove. The highlight of our trip was meeting Al, which we met through a spectator of our show in Toronto that gave us his address as a place to stop. Well, he ended up being much more than that. His house was voted the best house ever by the Sprockets, Theo didn’t want to leave. Al is one of a kind, in a good way. Any positive adjective that you can think of, he probably deserve them. It is only unfortunate that there are no more people like him on earth. Because we left with his DVD, his CDs and his book, he ended being with us much of the trip, not only did we have so much fun watching his movie but we had his CDs playing every night and Theo knows nearly all of his songs by heart. I can only wholeheartedly recommend to anyone reading this to purchase them, and if you do buy the DVD, leave it on pause for a while on the disk menu and watch. www.alsimmons.com

We are now finally in BC. It has been so cold at night that we’ve had to put the oven on in the evening. Because Jo has left, I am now doing home schooling with Theo which mean that I pretty much became a week-end driver.

After travelling for three years (since first arriving in Central America) in the company of Jo, Theo’s school tutor and our technician, it was very sad to see him leave on Saturday at the airport of Montreal. So sad in fact that we couldn’t stay behind, in Montreal, and decided to go back on the road straight away, direction West.

After an other stop at our friends Dave and Mary, where we pickup Theo school work and a few letters from Europe, we are now driving, driving, driving….

Quebec,the town, was amaizing and it is really only the cold that made us decide to head toward British Colombia.

We were able to park on the Marina, thanks to Patto and Julie, who also have been travelling for the past ten years doing shows, and the last few of them, in a sailing boat.

All the artist there made us feel really welcome and the circus school opened their door to us.They, also, were very warm people. It felt like such a luxury to be able to train all week in this beautifull space , and to be taught Flying trapeze by Pierre and Guy. We didn’t want to leave anymore but The dreadfull cold…

After Quebec, meeting with Marie Claude Bouillon from la Luna Caballera, and working with her for the village fiesta of Notre Dame du Rosaire, was a very enriching and pleasing experience.

we are now back in Quebec as the first time around, we only crossed it to be in time for Kingston.

After the stress of the big city of Toronto, we needed some fresh air and some nice people to surround us so we could reenergised.

What best then to go and stay with Mary and Dave from Avalon motor and even better when our friend Mamsel (which we met in Mexico) and her friend Simon decided to visit us on that same night. They ended up staying 6 days and we had a lovely time.

Leaving on Saturday afternoon made it hard to organise a show for the week end, but late on Sunday we found a campground and were able to do our show that same night.

It was a lazy drive to Sherbrooke with lots of stops for swims, golf and lunches.

We are now meeting other artists and trying to decide our futur step. Will we brave a winter here or head West or even better South??

Scott, poor Scott, spent his first night ever in a gell and even had to be handcuft on his way there even so he was perfectly willing to follow. The reason was that after driving a whole day, he had a few brandy with friend in his home and was arested on his way back to the bus on his bicycle. That was our welcoming to Bancroft, I do have to press on the point that he wasn’t rowdy or insulting to anyone, his only mistake was the little bit of weaving he was doing on his bicycle, so when the police are arresting totaly honest people, it does make you wonder where the world is going…

Still after that everything went well in Bancroft and the two show we did in the Millenium park were very well received by the audience.

After that we spent a nice few days on our friends land, Dave and Mary (Avalon Motors, Belleville) before going and pick up Sally (Scott’s sister) and her childrens, Flora and Ed, at the Toronto airport.

Hi everyone and sorry for once again being so slow at blogging. For those who haven’t followed us on Face Book, we are now in South Italy and quite frankly hope to remain here for quite a while, tired of travelling you might say. Anyway, really enjoying life down here, people so far have been […]